Scott Kinka

Scott Kinka is Chief Technology Officer for Evolve IP. He has spent almost his entire career devising new and simpler ways for companies to acquire and integrate technology. While all of the tech talk these days is about the cloud, he was doing this when it was called ASP (application service provider) or on-demand. Before Scott joined Evolve IP as Chief Technology Officer, he served as Vice President of Network Services for Broadview Networks and ATX Communications. He has been involved in application development, hosting, messaging, networking, unified communications, contact centers, and security. His mission (and specialty) is acting as a translator between technology and business needs.

You don’t have to be a techie to have heard about the challenges Amazon’s
faced with its EC2 elastic cloud offering over the weekend. States of
emergency were declared up and down the eastern seaboard after a destructive
line of thunderstorms knocked out power in over 4 million homes — including
Amazon’s East Coast cloud data center. The outage took down Netflix,
Pinterest, Instagram and well-known cloud applications, as well as cutting
off access to countless numbers of businesses whose names we might never
know.
Since then, media and social media have been speculating on what this event
says about the future of the cloud. It culminated in an article on Sunday in
the New York Times by Quentin Hardy, in which he states that the outage
“underlined how businesses and consumers are increasingly exposed to
unforeseen risks and wrenching disruptions as they increasingly... (more)

When I sat down to write this post, I did some prep reading to see what the
bloggers I follow were saying on the topic. But by the third post, I was
reminded that we (the tech nerds) are not generally helpful. Tech nerds talk
and write in our own language. We write to look smarter than the next guy. We
invent words to describe what we’re doing, and if these words catch on in
the mainstream, we just invent another one to further confuse the issue.
It’s at this point that the big box manufacturers and software companies
adopt the word and modify it for their own nefarious intentions... (more)

Worldwide IT spending is projected to rise US$3.8 trillion in 2014 according
to recent Gartner research, a 3.1 percent increase from spending in 2013,
which was $3.7 trillion. While not a huge jump in dollars, it does indicate
that companies have been conserving cash over the past few years and are
ready and willing to invest - albeit conservatively - with the recovery in
place.
The promise of the Cloud has been validated and tested now over several years
and organizations are increasing budgets and plans accordingly, more liberal
spending is being seen by Cloud service provider... (more)

A few weeks ago, Superstorm Sandy ravaged the East Coast, leaving devastation
in its wake. Thousands of people were without power, food, and water. It
quickly became clear that Sandy’s aftermath would bring life on the East
Coast to a standstill for days as the region began to rebuild.
Early estimates of the damage put the business loss associated with the storm
as high as $30 billion. But Grudi Associates, The John M. Glover Agency, and
many others weren’t a part of that group. Evolve IP’s redundant cloud
platform allowed them to run their businesses remotely as the storm raged o... (more)

According to Microsoft, the number of small businesses entering the cloud
business will triple in the next few years. So if you’ve already become a
part of that statistic, you’ve made a wise choice. Unless, of course,
you’ve picked the wrong provider to be your partner.
Picking the right partner is easier said than done. And when it comes to the
cloud, it’s hard to tell one provider from the next. So if you can’t even
tell them apart, how are you supposed to pick one that will help you grow
during the next phase of your evolution?
Only you know what will be the right fit for your... (more)

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